This prophetic work shows us a near-perfect society, that of Gondawa where reigns a material and intellectual equality between men. This may raise a smile but he did reveal negative during playback récit..L'intrigue remains very original: Researchers find two prisoners of individual ice for nearly 900,000 years. Managing to extirpate this ice, they realize that their civilization is superior to ours. The pride of the learned quickly takes over and they will attempt to capture knowledge by interviewing one of the two individuals discovered, endowed with the conaissance of universal knowledge. Through a growing suspense and fantastic objects (the "eating machine") Barjavel transports us into a world that reveals attractive. But is it real? Regarding a movie idea, it seems that it has been abandoned long ago. Too bad, because the work is skillfully Prette a film adaptation.